Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

Overview

In July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding secretary general of the “Party of God,” burst into the spotlight of the Western media — cast, almost inevitably, as an even more dangerous incarnation of Osama bin Laden. Yet well before the start of the war, Nasrallah had acquired an almost unrivalled credibility in the Arab world among admirers and detractors alike, a profile that soared in May 2000 when he became the first leader to push Israel out of Arab land.

Voice of Hezbollah brings to an English-speaking readership for the first time Nasrallah’s speeches and interviews: the intricate, deeply populist arguments and promises that he has made from the mid-1980s to the present day. Newly translated from the Arabic, and with an introduction by one of the foremost writers on Lebanon, Voice of Hezbollah is critical to the understanding of the man and the movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844671533
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	08/17/2007
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.97(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is the Secretary General of the Lebanese Islamist party and paramilitary organization Hezbollah. Nasrallah became the leader of Hezbollah after Israel assassinated the movement’s leader Abbas al-Musawi in 1992.

Nicholas Noe is founder and editor-in-chief of the Beirut-based news translation service mideastwire.com. He was previously a news editor on the Lebanon Daily Star/Herald Tribune, and has written for numerous regional and international publications.

Ellen Khouri is a consultant on human rights and democracy, and managing director of the Lebanese publisher Al-Kutba. She has worked as a translator and editor for over 25 years.

Nicholas Blandford is Beirut correspondent for The Times, the Christian Science Monitor and the Lebanon Daily Star; he is the author of Killing Mr Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East.

Table of Contents

Introduction   Nicholas Blanford     1
Editor's Introduction   Nicholas Noe     15
Translator's Introduction   Ellen Khouri     19
Radicalism and Resistance, 1986-1999
Civil War and Resistance (March 11, 1986)     23
Shiite Reconciliation (February 3, 1989)     34
Elegy for Sayyed Abbas Mussawi (February 18, 1992)     51
After the Assassination (February 27, 1992)     56
Victory at the Polls (August 25, 1992)     77
"Hezbollah is not an Iranian Community in Lebanon" (September 11, 1992)     84
The First Understanding with Israel (August 27, 1993)     100
"Who is Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah?" (August 31, 1993)     116
The April Understanding (April 30, 1996)     144
The Martyrdom of Sayyed Hadi Nasrallah (September 13, 1997)     169
On Conditional Withdrawal (March 29, 1998)     179
On Jews (May 7, 1998)     187
Towards Liberation (June 21, 1999)     194
Repositioning, 2000-2004
"A Peaceful Resolution is a Victory for the Resistance" (February 16, 2000)     213
Victory (May 26, 2000)     232
The Second Intifada (October 5, 2000)     244
"The Americans Have Sent Us a Political Bomb" (November 16, 2001)     256
"How Can You Afford That?" (February 16, 2002)     263
On the Thirteenth Anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's Death (June 4, 2002)     267
"Arabs are Not Red Indians" (October 22, 2002)     278
The Impending Iraq War and "Muslim-Christian Alignment" (March 13, 2003)     282
Interview with 60 Minutes (April 20, 2003)     287
After Occupation (April 22, 2003)     294
Prisoner Exchange (January 29, 2004)     299
They are a Group that "Lives in the Middle Ages" (March 2, 2004)     310
Letter to the Arab and Islamic Ummas (July 30, 2004)     314
February 14, 2005 and After
"You Will Today Decide the Fate of Your Nation and Country" (March 8, 2005)     319
A Message to France (April 13, 2005)     328
"We Will Consider Any Hand that Tries to Seize Our Weapons as an Israeli Hand" (May 25, 2005)     335
Al Quds Day (October 28, 2005)     352
"I Assure You Once Again [Samir], that Your Hopes are Sound and in the Right Place" (April 24, 2006)     370
Interview with New TV (August 27, 2006)     378
Further Reading     411
Index     416